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Edmund White

1940 -

Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love.

His best-known works include The Joy of Gay Sex (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.

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  • Cover of: A boy's own story

    First published in 1982 24 editions in 2 languages — 5 previewable Cover of edition boysownstory00whit Cover of edition boysownstory0000whit_e6e2 Cover of edition boysownstory00whitrich Cover of edition isbn_9788423324729
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    First published in 1988 17 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition genetbiography00whitrich Cover of edition genet00whit
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  • Cover of: Caracole

    First published in 1985 9 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition caracole00whitrich Cover of edition caracole0000whit Cover of edition caracole00whit
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  • Cover of: The beautiful room is empty

    First published in 1988 8 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition beautifulroomise0000whit Cover of edition beautifulroomise00whitrich
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  • Cover of: States of desire: travels in gay America

    First published in 1980 8 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition statesofdesiretr00whit
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  • Cover of: Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

    First published in 2018 7 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: City boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and 70s

    First published in 2009 7 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition cityboymylifeinn00whit
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  • Cover of: Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

    First published in 2014 6 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition insidepearlmyyea0000whit_m3i0 Cover of edition insidepearlmyyea0000whit
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  • Cover of: My Lives: A Memoir (P.S.)

    First published in 2005 5 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition mylives00whit
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  • Cover of: The married man

    First published in 2000 5 editions in 2 languages — 5 previewable Cover of edition marriedman0000whit_q3l6 Cover of edition marriedman00whit_0 Cover of edition marriedman0000whit Cover of edition marriedman00whit
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  • Cover of: A boy's own story ; The beautiful room is empty

    First published in 1993 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Nocturnes for the King of Naples

    First published in 1978 5 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition nocturnesforking00whit
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  • Cover of: Our Paris: sketches from memory

    First published in 1995 4 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition ourparissketches0000whit
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  • Cover of: The burning library: essays

    First published in 1994 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The farewell symphony

    First published in 1997 4 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition farewellsymphony00whit Cover of edition isbn_9780099768012
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  • Cover of: The other persuasion

    First published in 1977 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition otherpersuasiona00klei
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  • Cover of: Fresh men: new voices in gay fiction

    First published in 2004 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Hotel de Dream

    First published in 2007 3 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition hoteldedream0000whit
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  • Cover of: Proust

    First published in 1999 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Skinned alive: stories

    First published in 1995 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition skinnedalivestor00whit
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Subjects
Gay men, Fiction, Biography, Authors, biography, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Homes and haunts, AIDS (Disease), Social life and customs, American Novelists, Fiction, gay, Gay, LGBTQ biography and memoir, New York Times reviewed, American Authors, Americans, Gay authors, Patients, Biographers, Description and travel, Fiction, general, Gay men's writings, American, Gay men, fiction, History, Intellectual life, Teenage boys
Places
France, Paris (France), Paris, United States, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), 4e Arrondissement (Paris, France), 4e Arrondissement, Christopher Street, Midwest, Stonewall Inn
People
Edmund White (1940-), Hubert Sorin, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Christopher Hampton (1946-), Cora Crane (1865 or 1866-1910), Frances Milton Trollope (1780-1863), Frances Wright (1795-1852), Jean Genet (1910-1986), Marlene Dumas, Ross Bleckner, Rudi Molacek, Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Time
20th century, 1898-1951, 1954-1969, 19th century

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
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May 5, 2016 Edited by Trey Fore added short bio
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import